Cloud Office Software Could Replace the Traditional One and Email

 A new Internet-Draft about the interconnection and the interoperability of different cloud-office applications has successfully been submitted by Mr. Zhun Guo, the general manager of Shanghai Biaoma IT Co., LTD, and posted to the IETF repository. IETF is one of two largest international internet standard organizations. Regarding the Internet-Draft, please refer to the link https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-guo-idoca-with-the-html-file-format/ and make comments on it. This draft has provided solutions to make users among different cloud-office websites have the same experience as those in a single website when a document was collaborated. It will be a new milestone of the interconnection of cloud-office applications in the office automation history. It is supported or paid attention to by many existing mainstream cloud-office software providers such as Google Drive, Microsoft Office 365, IBM Docs, Cisco WebEx, Zoho, ThinkFree, Adobe Acrobat,FengOffice，Evernote，Slide Share and Libre-office-on-line. 

It is well-known that cloud-office applications are being used by countless users in our highly informationized times. Nowadays, the social statistics, the meeting minutes, or the digital office cannot do without the office software. The market of office software dominated by Microsoft Office for 20 years is in a great change because of the development of network technologies of open source, cloud computing, HTML5, WebSocket and the rise of those cloud offices such as Google Drive. Office applications are currently developing in a way of simple operation and nuanced function. Those large and all-inclusive office applications keep abreast of those small office applications that focus on certain functional extension. And, with the continuous increase of market demand for office software, many competitors are joining in this market. Traditional office software providers such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Kingsoft WPS and Founder are wrestling one another, but Microsoft has always been dominant. However, in the field of online office or cloud office, some companies, such as Google, Zoho and Apple, have already gotten their own shares in the field of online office or cloud office because, with the help of technologies of cloud computing, they can meet their users’ demand that they can log in their cloud system anytime and anywhere. According to the introduction about the cloud-office by Mr. Zhun Guo, the proposer of Internet-Draft of the interconnection of cloud-office applications, those existing cloud-office applications work wonderfully on the collaboration in a single website. However, the transmission of documents across the website has to be done by email nowadays. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate some transport protocols (such as HTTP or SPDY） similar to SMTP into cloud-office applications in order to make functions of the cloud-office website perfect. In his opinion, those traditional office applications installed in PC have a problem with interoperability because different providers have different file formats (for example, ODF, OOXML and UOF). As for cloud-office applications, however, such problem does not exist because different providers adopt a common web file format, HTML. If the interconnection comes true, cloud-office applications will completely replace the traditional email and office software. Moreover, it is of great advantage for the rapid popularity of cloud-office applications.

Liu Peng, the secretary-general of COSOFT and the former leader of expert group in the document field of national 863 plans, pointed out: “The human always has an ideal to break the barriers and eliminate the fence in order to conveniently communicate one another. There definitely exists information gap among different cloud-office websites. We must do our best to eliminate the gap. Nevertheless, the technology level of the interconnection of cloud-office applications must also be improved.

It is said that the highest realm of the cloud-office is that employees are no longer bound in the office but can log on the cloud system to do their office work in the car, outdoor, at home, anywhere and anytime. Some experts think that the one that get hold of the cloud-office application will have a head start in the reshuffle of office ideas and office patterns. Google and Microsoft, the old rivals, are protagonists in the wrestle for the “cloud-office”. The one that has the head start will win the competition.